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November 6, 2019

Zuckerberg Meets with Civil Rights Leaders Amid Facebook Controversies
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with civil rights leaders at his home
Monday night amid the ongoing controversy about Facebook's policy of
allowing politicians to lie in political advertisements, as well as its
role in facilitating election interference and housing discrimination.
In an open letter ahead of the meeting, Kristen Clarke, president of the
national Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, wrote to
Zuckerberg: "You are using First Amendment values as a smokescreen to
mask harmful policy decisions that Facebook is making to advance its
corporate self-interest." Clarke also cc'd Attorney General of the
United States William Barr.


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